The House began work on federal spending for the fiscal year 2022 budget year, a package of seven of the dozen bills that set annual spending. More than 200 amendments were allowed, and a vo…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,545 viewsCapitol and District of Columbia police testified at the first hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Witnesses described their e…
43,084 viewsJoint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chair Gen. John Hyten spoke about defense technology with the newly founded Emerging Technologies Institute. Other topics included the COVID-19 pandemic, China and…
1,381 viewsViewers commented on political protests at the Olympics. The games opened in Tokyo the previous day, with protests and demonstrations both inside and outside the stadiums.
954 viewsHomeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the department’s fiscal year 2022 budget request. The secre…
977 viewsWhite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed new Centers for Disease Control mask guidance for vaccinated individuals amid rising cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant. During this briefing…
3,600 viewsWhat caused student loan debt in the U.S. to rise to more than a trillion dollars? Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell spoke about this growing debt for parents and students with NPR …
760 viewsPresident Biden and Vice President Harris marked the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The legislation signed into law on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. …
4,190 viewsSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) spoke to reporters about their call on President Biden to extend the pa…
752 viewsWhite House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a briefing on the Biden administration’s policy agenda. She announced the White House would be maintaining its travel restrictions due to a rise in…
2,635 viewsRepresentative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, reacted after the committee’s first hearing with witn…
4,223 viewsAuthor Maia Szalavitz argued for harm reduction policies to address drug addiction. This virtual event was hosted by the Strand Bookstore in New York City.
358 viewsMike DeBonis previewed the week ahead in Congress and the key battles ahead for President Biden’s legislative agenda.
377 viewsSenate Republican leaders spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill following their weekly conference luncheon. Topics include the death of former Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), and infrastructure and s…
618 viewsRepresentatives Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Jason Crow (D-CO), and Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) recounted their first-hand experiences on January 6, 2021, when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol trying to…
4,235 viewsViewers responded to the question “Are you vaccinated: why or why not?”
1,234 viewsJohn Logsdon of George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute talked about recent flight into space by private entrepreneurs and its potential impact on space travel.
361 viewsWashington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig discusses their new book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”
1,887 viewsFrancesca Chambers talked about the week ahead at the White House.
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